What we witnessed in the final of Euro 2012 was something special. Whatever your allegiance, wherever your money lay there can be no other reasonable, sane, mature option but to applaud and appreciate the making of history. That this Spain team is great there can be no question. Vicente Del Bosque may well have altered […]
Archive | July 1, 2012
Euro 2012 Final: Paddy Power’s Big Game Bingo
We’re not saying tonight’s game is going to be boring but just in case it gets bogged down in a mire of midfield maestro-ism, we’ve whipped together another version of our patented Paddy Power Big Game Bingo. Print it out, get your pen ready and mark the clichés and inevitable pundit-isms as they occur from […]
So You Think to sign off in style in Coral Eclipse
By Sean Goff | Sports reporter So You Think heads the field in Paddy Power’s online betting for the Coral Eclipse Stakes at Sandown on Saturday before he gets the gold clock and retires to a life at stud. The Aussie import returned to top form in the Prince of Wales Stakes at Royal Ascot when […]
How Italy defied the odds to reach Euro 2012 final
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer There were two schools of thought about Italy heading into Euro 2012. The first was that they were a bunch of middling players from a crippled league who would be in disarray as a result of controversy. The second was they were a bunch of middling players from […]
The Italian job: History is against Spain in the final
By Josh Powell | Sports writer Preview: Spain v Italy, Sunday 7.45 ITV1/BBC1/RTE2 The Lowdown Spain are bidding to make history on Sunday and become the first team to win a third successive major tournament. They have kept an unbelievable nine successive clean sheets in knockout matches and haven’t lost a competitive game since June […]
Euro 2012: Spain v Italy Live Blog
Italy have been surprisingly good, particularly in their semi-final win over the more fancied and oddly not so-reliable Germans. The defending champions haven’t been at their best but ultimately a jaded Spain playing without a striker and struggling to score is still better than most other teams. Starting Negredo counts as playing without a striker. […]
Dublin face Wexford in Croke Park double header
By Sean Goff | Sports writer A footballing double header at Croke Park on Sunday sees All-Ireland champions Dublin take on Wexford (4pm) while Meath face Kildare (2pm). The reigning All-Ireland champions Dublin are 1/10 to beat the Slaneysiders in Paddy Power’s online betting but it’s a tie they have struggled in previously before recovering […]
Robbie Fowler: Balotelli has won me over
Wayward Italian striker Mario Balotelli has silenced his critics with some memorable displays ahead of tonight’s Euro 2012 showdown with Spain and Robbie Fowler is impressed. I’ve not been Mario Balotelli’s biggest fan but he’s winning me over with his performances heading into tonight’s final at Euro 2012. If Italy are to beat the reigning […]
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